Well, not nervous or anxious, but visibly tight in coverages. Auburn's cornerbacks have been working more on defending receivers in tight coverages, pressing receivers at the line in an effort to disrupt their rhythm and timing with quarterbacks.

“We have gotten our hands on a lot of balls in this camp," Davis said. "Hopefully that can change this upcoming season.”

Last season, the Tigers seemed lost in coverage at times. The result? Zero interceptions by the corners.

"We had eye violations -- getting our eyes out of the backfield and putting them on the man," Davis said. "And that's basically it."

Interestingly, all eyes are on the Tigers' quarterbacks. The four-man race between former starters Kiehl Frazier and Jonathan Wallace, and newcomers Jeremy Johnson and Nick Marshall is the No. 1 topic in preseason camp, and it's those cornerbacks that could and should test the quarterbacks and put them in situations to make great throws -- and difficult decisions.

"Obviously the defense, they're flying around," tight end C.J. Uzomah said. "They're just as amped up to practice as we are, but I think it's more timing. We still need to get our timing correct. Sometimes it'll be the receiver, or us, we'll get jammed up when we're supposed to get off the press. So, that will throw off the timing a little bit and cause a bad throw or cause the quarterback having to hold on to it because it's our fault. I don't think it's any one person's fault, it's kind of the whole team issue."

Davis will likely exit the spring as the Tigers' starter at boundary corner on the opposite side of Jonathon Mincy. He's modeling himself after former corner T'Sharvan Bell. "I sat back learned a lot from him," Davis said. "he is a very vocal leader and leads by example at the same time. I think it has been a very good thing for me."

Bell broke up five passes and recorded 24 tackles last season.

For now, Davis is all about making contact, disrupting receivers and testing the quarterbacks.

"For us in the secondary, we get to do one-on-ones, and we get to do button-up drills with the receivers," Davis said. " Get a little contact that we ain't had in a minute."